a new star in the sky... what a horrid night. i got home from work about 11:00 and found a dead ferret in the cage. :( jezebel, my little bitey-brat, my pixie-face girl, barely 2-1/2, is gone. my other half just played with them all about 3 hours before and they were all fine. i just got back from taking her body to the emergency vet. i'm not quite up to accepting this just yet, when it hurts my stomach so much to cry; this soon post-surgery. (i just had my gallbladder removed last friday, and i'm still having more than a bit of discomfort.) it looks like an acute spleen trauma (i don't remember the exact term the vet used), where her spleen became acutely enlarged, and then somehow became twisted or torqued, and cut off the blood supply. a freak thing; nothing i did wrong or that could have been predicted. she's also slightly jaundiced, the vet's also thinking possibly juvenile lymphoma (or it could be from the blood issue with the spleen), but i'm unfortunately not in the financial position to pay $300-400 to have her opened up to find out that, indeed, it was one of those two things. (i'm still trying to figure out how to pay for my surgery, and the time lost from work; i can't even take tomorrow off to mourn). the vet said a necropsy probably won't find anything more remarkable than what he could tell by examing her, so i'm just going to let her go in peace and have them keep her in their cold storage until i can take her to my regular ferret-vet monday for cremation. (the emergency vet charges twice as much.) this...just...sucks. so now there are 3. ~sherrie, aka daoine o', the ferret queen and razzle, monty-boo, and sascha; the new boy everyone wants to kill (especially jezebel. guess i won't have to worry about that anymore.) :( ~still missing dweezil, my one small star~ [Posted in FML issue 4905]